Sales tax deduction on a used car

[taxprep5268]

Can you deduct (if you itemize) the sales tax paid on a used car purchase? It was my understanding that only new car purchases received such treatment, but I don't see in the Schedule A instructions that the car (or boat) has to be "new", however, at one time I thought it did.

[abctax55 · Accepted solution]

There is no restriction that a purchase has to be *new* to take the sales tax deduction.

(Keep an eye on SALT & the new standard deduction tho, as the whole concept may be irrelevant anyway 🙂